By Norman Fleishman
Though I am happy to accept Ms. Testa”s recent apology in your paper, I certainly did not wish to “maliciously attack” the “foundation of her faith.”
I did hope for her awareness that religion bears some responsibility for not recognizing that human population ? rather than growing arithmetically ? one, two, three, four, etc. ? grows geometrically ? two, four, eight, 16, etc. ? which means that the looming increment in numbers, from our current seven billion, will not be 7.5 billion ? or even 8 billion ? but the heaven-kissing number of 14 billion ? which we are slated to arrive at before the year 2050!
A good case can be made that our precious planet is overpopulated now ? with dire water and food shortages and inter-nation rivalries erupting into war. What can we expect when we leap to twice our current numbers in just the blink of an eye? That, considering it”s taken a half-billion years to inch upward to only seven billion!
Ms. Testa says “Churches are doing more than ever.” No doubt they are. Shouldn”t we then expect religion to be in the forefront of those expressing major concern with this outrageously ballooning population growth?
Norman Fleishman
Lakeport
